e 1 l 1 i 1 t 1 i 1 s 1 m 3
7 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun the attitude that society should be governed by an elite group of individuals
originEtymology tree English elite Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English elitism From elite + -ism. First attested in the 1930s.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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- melts 7